Car truck



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CAR TRUCK Filed March 28, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented sept. 2o, i927.

UNITED sTATEs 1,642,862 1' ..'1'15:1\rrg OFFICE.

CHARLES T. WESTLAKE, OE sT. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASsIGNOn To COMMONWEALTH sTEEL COMPANY, OE ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A oOItrOItATION OE NEW JERSEY.

CAR TRUCK.

Application led Marcin/28, 19x25. Serial No. 19,128.

lThis invention relates to new and useful Improvements 1n railway car trucks and has izontal planes extending transversely of the truck. /n'

In railway car trucks having/ equalizers pivoted to the wheel pieces of the frameand Supported at their ends by Springs bearing on the journal boxes, such equalizers are subj ected inoperation to movements about their pivots due to differentlevels of opposite track rails, thereby causing the journal boxes at opposite sides of the track to rise and fall relative to eachother. Such equalizers are also subject to horizontal movements about their pivots due to the lateral play of the axles and journalbox and pedestals, and it is thev object of my invention to accommodate these two movements by mounting each equalizer bar so that it is movable about its pivot in both directions without interfering with its normal pivotal movement in a plane extending longitudially of the truc c .With these and other detail Object-s in view, my invention consists in certain novel features of construction andarrangement of y 3" parts, hereinafter more fully described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- .r d

Figure 1 isa fragmental plan view of a car truck partly in cross section to more vclearly illustrate my invention.

Figure 2 is a vertical cross section taken Online 2--2 ofFigure 1.

Figure 3 is a transverse cross section takenon line 3--3 of Figure 1.

Figure 4 is a detail cross sectional view of an equalizer bar showing the pivotal. seat thereof in cross section. v

Figure 5 1s a transverse cross Asection 'throu l1 a wheel piece and showing another modifijed form for pivotally mounting the equalizer bar.

Figure 6 is a vertical cross section on line 8-8 of Figure 5.

Figures 7 and 8 are, respectively, transverse and longitudinal cross sections of a wheel piece and Showing another modified form of mounting the equalizer bar. 'V

Referring by numerals to the laccompanying drawings, 10 indicates a car truck rame taken having wheel pieces 11 which are preferably box-shape in cross section and are prvidedv vrwith pedestal jaws 12 arran ed in pairs to receive journal `boxes 14, which latter form bearings for axles 15 carrying wheels 15 Bearing on top of journal boxes 14 are coiled sprl gs 16, the upper ends Ofwhich receive caps\orspring followers 16 on'which rest the respective ends 17 of equalizer bars 18, which ane operatively disposed within wheel p1eces\11. Each equalizer bar 18 is provided at the appropriate point with a 'horizontally disposed opening. 19 arranged to the lateral play of axles and journal box par-ts, each equalizer bar is so mounted on its pivot that a limited pivotal movement in a horizontal plane is ermitted to such bar. In the preferred Form, this is accomplished by providing pin 20 with an intermediate sphericalportion 20'* which is engaged by the concave seat 21 formed in the lower portion of opening 19. In this manner the equalizer bar has a ball vand. socket engagement with the' wheel piece thereby permitting pivotal movement of said bar in both vertical and horizontal planes extending transversely of the truck. The spherical portion 20 is substantially of the same diameter as the cylindrical portion 20b of pin 20 in order to permit insertion of. said pin in position in the wheel piece.

The pivotal Seat in the equalizer bar is made by first forming the opening 19 which v is of substantially the same diameter as the diameter of pin 20 and then milling the lower half of said opening to form the concave seat 21. When pin 20 is in position inthe wheel piece, it is held against withdrawal by a retaining member, such as a cotter pin 22, seated in one of the bearings lla and passing through said pin.

The modified form illustrated Figures` -5 and 6 .discloses a sleevel 27 freely mounted i on a horizontally disposed bolt or in 28 *,/upwardlyprojecting pin 30-which is freely f seated in'a recess 3l disposed radially in said sleeve. In this manner pin and recess 31 form pivotal interengagement ybetween said sleeve and the equalizer bar so that the latter can move in a horizontal plane with pinV 30 as the pivot and at the same time said equalizer -is pivotally movable in a vertical p ane with pin 28 as the pivot.

In the form shown vin Figures 7 and 8 a horizontally dis osed pin 34 extends transversely through t ewheel piece and has its ends rotatably seated in.Y bearin s 35 formed inthe side-walls of Zthe whee iece. An equalizer bar 36 restsagainst the at face 34 formed in the lower, portion of said pin and is -provided with an upwardly projecting pin' which is pivotally seated in aA downwardly resented recess '38 formed in said flat'surace 34. Pin `34 freely seated in bearings 35 forms a pivot` for permitting pivotal movement of the equalizer bar in vertical plane while pin 37 seated in recesses 38 acts asa pivot during the horizontal pivotal movement of said bar. Pin 34 is held against displacement by means of a bolt or cotter pin 39 which is disposed immediately in front of the head 34 of pin 34 and prevents the withdrawal of the latter from operative position. `Member 39 is carried by lugs or ears- 40 which arel preferably formed integral with and project outwardly from one side of wheel piece 11.

I claim:

)..Inl a railway truck, a'wheel piece, an

eqllializer bar, al removable member in said w eel plece and engagmgsaid equallzer bar `for permitting the pivotal movement thereof both in vertical yand horizontal planes extending transversely of the truck.

2. In a railway truck, a wheel piece, an

equalizer bar, a removable member in said wheel piece and engaging said equalizer bar for permitting the pivotal movement thereof both in vertical and horizontal planes extending transversely of the truck, and means for retaining said member in operative position in said wheel piece.

3. In a railway truck, a wheel piece havinor spaced vertical walls, an equalizer positione between said walls, a pin extending through said wheel piece and said equalizer, and al l universal joint connection between said equalizer and pin -whereby said equalizer supports said wheelfpiece' through said pin and may tilt in vertical and horizontal planes y of said walls and seated in said bosses and having a yspherical surface intermediate its ends, an equalizer disposed between said ,posing bosses, a pin extending transversely walls and having a transverse openingadapted to have v.said'pin assed therethrough,

there being aV spherica recess in said openpin.

signature this 24th day ofr March, 1925.'.

'80 ,ing1 for engaging the spherical portion of sal f In testimony whereof I hereunto atlix my o 17o. 'nwEsTLaKI-z. y 

